Jupiter
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The origin of this animation goes back some 25 years when I did a 4-panel cartoon of the basic idea. As 4 panels, though, it left something to be desired. An animation of the entire sequence seemed much more natural, which had to wait till "today" and the availability of software animation tools.
With the exception of the texture for Jupiter, which was done in Photoshop, the artwork was strictly within Ray Dream Studio. This had some drawbacks. The odd mistake or misplaced object would throw everything else out of whack. At such times there was no choice except to begin all over again. Nevertheless, the happiness by which one could set visible light was sufficient motivation for continuing . . . until I could reach a reasonably finished version. Afterward I assembled the pieces in MGI's Videowave and added a soundtrack which I recorded in Creative's Wave Studio. Uncompressed, the source file is about 71 megs, which would have been a tad heavy for the web. The various Quicktime and Intel codecs cut the size down to about 1 meg to 500K, which, while better for a web, is still rather large. I was surprised to see that the Real encoding software could cut the whole animation to about 55K while keeping reasonable quality for a 28K connection. Call it another plus for the web, as well as for MCMOGATK in making the space (with a Real server) available.
The main annoyance in the animation is that the visible light (at a very wide angle) became too pixilated - even in the uncompressed avi. It should have looked more like the image below.
Still from the Red Spot animation Well . . . that's something else to figure out. For the next one . . . | |
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--Chet Gottfried
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